DOING CIRCUIT:

Got in the car.
Drove to a carpark,
Changed footwear,
Walked,
Dodging Sunday runners,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
Photographed a strap hanging on a barbed wire fence,
Photographed a crushed tin box entangled in a broken branch,
Photographed a plastic bag pinned to a wooden fence,
Walked,
Talked,
Dodging Sunday runners,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
Exchanging stories,
About here & there,
Life lived,
Mistakes made,
Lessons learned & forgotten,
Laughed,
Walked,
Dodging Sunday runners,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
Turned off the road,
Through a rusted iron gate,
Photographed a fragment of an ‘L’ plate,
Up a dirt path,
Dog walkers waving,
Stick & ball,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
“Good morning”,
Through mud,
Through a rusted iron gate,
A hole in a wall,
Exchanging stories,
Experiences,
Memories,
Laughing at how old I’d become,
Surprised,
Trying to work out why I didn’t feel it,
Laughing,
Turned down between the church & the alms house,
A back road,
Double yellow lines,
Parallel to curb stones,
Mazes,
Hawthorn hedges dancing naked,
The backs of houses,
Silent,
An enormous RZ,
Generator running,
Next to the duck pond,
The sounds of breakfast,
Plates & knives & frying,
Remembering holidays,
Caravans,
Sand dunes,
Surf,
Seagulls,
Kites,
Dipping nets on canes,
Arrived back at the car,
Changed footwear,
Laughing,
Drove home,
Exchanging stories.

(K)